Tomorrow (7/22/2014) from 7-5PM California Time, Backblaze will be undergoing scheduled maintenance. During this time, we will be updating a cluster, resulting in more stability and speed for some of our earliest customers. During this maintenance, the following parts of our service will be affected for some of our users: Access to the My Account….

*UPDATE — 2/12/2014 — The post mortem on the data center outage is complete. The outage started when the Emergency Power Off (EPO) system was activated. The outage began on 02/05/2014 at 9:08 am PST and lasted 1 hour and 43 minutes until 10:51 am PST. At this point the Backblaze servers started recovering and….

Yesterday (October 24, 2013) six cabinets in the Backblaze datacenter lost all electricity at the same moment (10:58am).Â No customer data was lost, but during the repair of the electrical circuits the pods containing some customer data were offline for the next few hours untilÂ 9:42pmÂ when the final pod was brought back up and online. These….

Want to win an iPad Mini or a Nexus 7? We’re having a scary video contest! Want the rules? Read below, and don’t forget to check out the example video at the bottom! Oh, and hurry! The contest ends October 29th! How to Enter the Contest? 1. Prepare a short, 30 seconds or less, video….

The Backblaze Blog has been around for quite a while and we’d like to know what you think of it, and what you’d change about it, if anything. Thank you for your feedback, and we hope we can keep bringing you quality, entertaining, and informative content! *Update* Thanks for all the feedback! We’ll be posting….

Last year Backblaze announced a partnership with SourcenextÂ to help spreadÂ online backupÂ throughout Japan. Â After all, backing up your computer is a good idea, no matter where you live! Â This year Sourcenext is releasing a retail box for us! Â Let’s take a look inside shall we?

Backblaze has a great support team and one of the most frequent requests they receive is, “could you please provide an invoice?” From the beginning, we’ve been handcrafting every invoice that’s been sent out, and while we love making our customers happy, as Backblaze has grown it’s become increasingly difficult to keep up with all….